West has somehow stayed open and vulnerable in the face of constant attack, abuse that would turn a lot of people into a brittle shell, instead of a warm, capacious and funny writer." Dayna Tortorici writing for The New York Times gave Shrill a mixed review, noting West's "wildly generous attitude toward her audience-meeting readers at their point of prejudice so that she may, with little visible effort, shepherd them toward a more humane point of view." However, Tortorici was less enthusiastic about the book's "at times. Though the book's many shrewd insights sometimes feel strung together in a way that's less than artful, they are always a pleasure to read." In The Guardian, Annalisa Quinn praised the book, writing, " Shrill mixes humour with pathos so effectively that those qualities magnify each other rather than cancelling each other out. Writing for Slate, Nora Caplan-Bricker described West's writing as "both sharp-toothed and fluid as it rips into period stigma and abortion stigma, sexism and fat-shaming. Overall, Shrill received generally positive reviews. The book collects a series of humorous personal essays.
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